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<p>The ASM library is a project of the <a href="/facts/OW2/PARqmUS7">OW2</a> consortium. It provides a simple API for decomposing, modifying, and recomposing binary Java classes (i.e. <a href="/facts/Bytecode/EPkMFR7M">bytecode</a>). The project was originally conceived and developed by Eric Bruneton. ASM is Java-centric at present, and does not currently have a backend that exposes other bytecode implementations (such as <a href="/facts/.NET_Framework/J6QDAUhP">.NET</a> bytecode, <a href="/facts/Python_(programming_language)/YbuGqofa">Python</a> bytecode, etc.). </p><p>The name "ASM" is not an acronym: it is just a reference to the <a href="/facts/Inline_assembler/Dn60Jm44">asm</a> keyword of C, which allows some functions to be implemented in assembly language. </p>